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A long pause while he looked at me He released uess we’ll see" And then he waited, running a hand through his hair, taking a step back

As usual, he had completely flipped the dyna I had the all the power And I did Until he had decided it was enough and wrested it from me as if I was a toddler with a toy she shouldn’t have been holding

We watched each other for longthis," I said

"Actually, I can Say you’ll come, Emilia"

Oh, I knew Heath would freak when he heard this--if I agreed to go, be gone practically a week My mom…ould I tell her? She’d call and want to knohy I wasn’t getting back to her And the blog And ether He couldn’t drag it out any longer And the feelings he was stirring inside h with this and I was back to my safe, norh "I’ll go"

"Now telltoway," I breathed

The right corner of his ive it a shot"

I stuck out hed

He checked his watch and backed away suddenly "We gotta go grab some lunch downstairs You like Cuban?"

"Floriano’s? Sure" Heath treated e for Cuban I didn’t knohether it had anything to do with his ongoing crush on one of the waiters or his constant craving for a plate of Pork al Habañera

I followed Adalass door and into the alley He held the door forbeside me, placed a hand at the small of my back Every muscle there pulled taut in response to his touch

We shuffled down the narrow alleyway and past the cigar shop, where oldsickly sweet smoke into the Plaza, and settled in to one of the metal tables on the sidewalk